Author Archives: theamericanplutarch
New Book on the Amos Family
I have just published a book exploring the history of the Amos family in the American South. I focus on William Wilburn Amos, son of George Washington Amos and Arsula Calhoun. The book explores the Amoses from the colonial period … Continue reading
The Praying Scholar
Daily prayer is the means by which we renew ourselves. Prayer is a reaching out to God, a response to God’s blessings. Prayer involves asking God what God already knows you will ask. God wishes us to ask for prayers for … Continue reading
Ash Hill Publishing
Ash Hill Publishing publishes many of the books that you will find listed at this blog, including books on religion, history, biography, and genealogy. For example, if you are interested in a different twist and empathetic telling of how and … Continue reading
Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang: The Limits of Piety
Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest and military veteran who in the 1920s and 1930s made astonishing theoretical discoveries that overturned the steady-state universe, the eternal unchanging universe that astronomers had believed in for millennia. Father Lemaître argued that the … Continue reading
Do not Fear Death, because Perfect Love Casts out Fear
Death is the last act of life that occurs in an instant in time, yet it opens to eternity. Hence the moment and the eternal are combined at once in death. Death is a time when our perceptions of life … Continue reading
Reflections on Daniel Boone, American Frontiersman, and John Filson, his First Biographer
John Filson, in his 1784 portrait of “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon” appended to The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, declared that “curiosity is natural to the soul of man.” With these words Filson sparked the beginning … Continue reading
New in Historical Fantasy Fiction: The Search for the Bronze Amulet
The Search for the Bronze Amulet is historical fantasy fiction, the story of a young Congregational minister (Jonathan Tucker, called Tuck) after the American Revolution who takes a position as pastor to impoverished fishers and their wives on the Isles … Continue reading
Captain John Smith was an Anglican Missionary—-WHAT?!
Captain John Smith was arguably the greatest of the English explorers, discoverers, and colonists of America. He was as well the first American historian. His human and natural histories include: A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate … Continue reading
Christian Missionaries–Books to Read
I am a historian, and one of my favorite topics to write on is the Christian missionary experience in America.I have just reissued a book about Baptist missionaries in America, particularly in Oklahoma: “Marking the Jesus Road: Bacone College through … Continue reading
Robert Hamilton, Baptist Missionary, and the Jesus Road
Robert Hamilton, a friend and associate of Mary P. Jayne and Joseph S. Murrow, was one of the first missionaries sent by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to western Oklahoma; Hamilton worked with the Cheyenne and Arapaho people from … Continue reading
